Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934125AbXHLKwZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759990AbXHLKwS (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:52:18 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52009 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759353AbXHLKwS (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:52:18 -0400 To: "Jesper Juhl" Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? References: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 12 Aug 2007 13:46:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 19 "Jesper Juhl" writes: > I just saw a news article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41610) > about a 3 Socket Opteron motherboard and couldn't help but wonder if > we are prepared to deal with such a beast, so I thought I'd inform > everyone :-) It should work. Non power of two cores per socket used to be problematic though, but that has been also fixed. > nr_of_cpus being an even number... In any case it would be an > interresting box to test on, so for those of you employed by big > business with the cash to purchase a test box, it would at least be an > interresting one to add to the mix :) You can already test it by either using qemu/xen/etc. or by off lining one of your cores if you have more than 2. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/